I am attempting to use the partial derivative operator in mathematica but can't quite get it working. This is my code.

Subscript[\[PartialD],x]x

It keeps saying "Derivative: ∂, x cannot be interpreted. A partial derivative requires a subscript differentiation variable."

Is this not how you do it? I have looked at a lot of documentation ... Also I do not want to use D[x,y] (more friendly for my code)